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    Airframe Family: Gloster Meteor
    Latest Model:Meteor F.8
    Last Military Serial:WH291 RAF
    Construction Number:AW.5052
    Compressed ID:Armstrong Whitworth Meteor F.8 sn W...
    Latest Owner or Location:Speke Aerodrome Heritage Group, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Meteor F.8 by Armstrong Whitworth at Baginton.

    19 November 1951

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n WH291.

    13 July 1968


    Photographer: John Smith / Rob Braithwaite
    Notes: 1968 photo taken at Hatfield in the UK. Photo displayed with written permission of Rob Braithwaite

    From 1970 to 1974

    Transferred to RAF Chivenor.

    Circa 1971


    Photographer: Alan Chudleigh
    Notes: Taken at RAF Chivenor Air Show 1971 while serving with 79Sqn 2TWU at RAF Chivenor.

    Circa 1972


    Photographer: Alan Chudleigh
    Notes: Taken at RAF Chivenor Air Day 1972 while serving with 79Sqn 2TWU RAF Chivenor

    By 20 August 1974

    Transferred to 5MU, RAF Kemble.


    Photographer: Unknown

    20 August 1974

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Royal Air Force.
    WH291 at from till when it was removed from service.

    10 February 1976

    To unknown owner.

    By 1984

    To Second World War Aircraft Preservation Society, Lasham Airport, Lasham, Hampshire, England.
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    14 July 2002


    Photographer: John Bennett

    By August 2010

    To Parkhouse Aviation, Wycombe Air Park, Booker-Lane End, Buckinghamshire/Bucks, England.
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    March 2011

    To Speke Aerodrome Heritage Group, Speke, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
    Stored dismantled.
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    25 March 2017


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Now preserved on the Apron of the old Liverpool Speke Airport - now the Crowne Plaza Hotel


    Photographer: Unknown
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